stoli n coke:What's the point. Everybody in the world already owns "Back in Black," which, save for a few Bon Scott tunes and a couple of tracks from "Razor's Edge," is all the AC/DC tunes anyone needs.

Throw in a few tracks from Highway to Hell, then add Thunderstruck and that's about it.

They went with the international versions instead of the Australian versions of the early Bon Scott albums. Bummer.

Plus, I'm betting these are the Sony masters, which have some edits and early fade-outs in some songs from the early albums.

It's the thing that bugs me about early AC/DC. I mean, there's 10 albums but the three of them have two versions of them, more or less. They did 55 songs and 33 are repeated ("Problem Child" is on three albums, mostly so they could get away with not putting "Crabsody in Blue" on the international version of Let There Be Rock. ) It's honestly why someone like me would want them to one day do a greatest hits album, just so I'm sure I got all the songs.

theurge14:stoli n coke: What's the point. Everybody in the world already owns "Back in Black," which, save for a few Bon Scott tunes and a couple of tracks from "Razor's Edge," is all the AC/DC tunes anyone needs.

Throw in a few tracks from Highway to Hell, then add Thunderstruck and that's about it.

I actually first listened to most of AC/DC's 70s catalog on 8 track, despite coming of age in the early 90s. Back in high school, my first car was a 1979 Olds Delta 88 with a working 8 track. I was over at my retired neighbor's house one day in 1991 and noticed he had a great collection of 70s hard rock 8 tracks, early AC/DC, Van Halen, Aerosmith, and ZZ Top. As I was checking them out, he mentioned that those were his son's and he hadn't touched them in almost a decade, and he said I could have them if I wanted. I took him up on the offer, and wound up with a box full of classic hard rock in my car. It was awesome, despite "Ride On" fading out in the middle because it was split between two tracks due to the length of the song.

/Still have great memories of driving around with "Ride On" cranking on the stereo while I heeded the siren call of the open road.

Def Leppard is (sort of) on that list, but not really voluntarily. Universal wasn't paying them what they thought was a fair share of royalties for digital downloads. However, the band's contract gave them final say over how their music is released, so they told Universal to EABOD. (You can buy some re-recorded versions of a couple of their hits, and a few of the actual music videos, but none of the studio versions in audio format.)

Bob Seger is also a little bit of a holdout, as none of his studio albums are on iTunes. However, there is a greatest hits on iTunes that features most of his hits.

I think Prince only counts as a holdout as far as his recent releases. All of his Warner Bros output (ie, the stuff the average person knows) is there.

theurge14:stoli n coke: What's the point. Everybody in the world already owns "Back in Black," which, save for a few Bon Scott tunes and a couple of tracks from "Razor's Edge," is all the AC/DC tunes anyone needs.

Throw in a few tracks from Highway to Hell, then add Thunderstruck and that's about it.